Shopping and Fucking

Shopping and Fucking

Shopping and Fucking

Shopping and Fucking

Overview

The ground-breaking debut from one of the most important playwrights of the last decade, now in an acting edition.

"Shopping and Fucking is a darkly humorous play for today's twenty-somethings... a real coup de theatre" Nicholas de Jongh, Evening Standard

"Plunges you into the world of disposability, disconnection and dysfunction, where relationships to be trusted have to be reduced to transactions ...strong stuff" Paul Taylor, Independent

"Ravenhill has more to say, and says it more refreshingly and wittily, than any other playwright of his generation" - Time Out

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Cautions

  • Caution Alcohol Alcohol
  • Caution Drugs Drugs
  • Caution Intense Adult Intense Adult Themes

Details

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Adult

Authors

Mark Ravenhill

Mark Ravenhill was born in Haywards Heath, West Sussex in 1966. He studied Drama and English at Bristol University. His first play Shopping and Fucking was produced by Out of Joint and the Royal Court Theatre in 1996. Subsequent plays include Faust Is Dead and Handbag (both ...
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